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Humor One|Difference between dark humor and gallows humor?

Thursday, March 6, 2014 - -

Question by Alex: Difference between dark humor and gallows humor?
They’re both humor in the face of serious or grotesque matters. Honestly it can be the funniest kind, but I don’t understand the difference between the two. Dark Comedy and Gallows Humor.

Best answer:

Answer by LortonDeformatory
In Gallows Humor, the person telling the joke is usually himself in danger of the thing he’s joking about, as if he were a man about to be hanged from a gallows, joking about having a fear of heights or a sore throat or something. So a student who’s joking about failing an exam that he’s about to take would be using gallows humor.

Dark humor isn’t necessarily about the person who’s telling the joke.

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